Drimva

Amazon

Senior Software Engineer, Security Services and Observability, Amazon Web Services

$168K–$227K

Seattle, WA +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026

Location
Seattle, WA
Irvine, CA
Herndon, VA
Experience
7+ years in software development, programming, and system design or architecture; no alternatives stated.
Education
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).

About the job

Build and deliver production-grade AI systems for enterprise customers, working with AWS service teams on security, search, observability, and governance solutions.

What you'll do

  • Embed with customers to understand their needs and design and ship AI-powered products.
  • Own complex cross-team engineering projects, set technical direction, and lead system design.
  • Build reusable accelerators and mentor engineers.

What they ask for

  • 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience and 7+ years programming in at least one language.
  • 7+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team; and influencing a team or organization.
  • Experience delivering complex software systems to customers and communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • Experience with machine learning or LLMs, AI products at scale, AWS, customer-facing work, or agentic and specification-driven development.

Pay

USD 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 annually (base salary)

Tools

large language models, agent frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation, foundation models, AWS, APIs

AI focus

Build multi-agent orchestration, retrieval pipelines, workflow automation, and decision intelligence; integrate models, customer data, APIs, and applications into production AI experiences, optimizing latency, reliability, observability, cost, and security.

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)